man, I'm well ill. Crazy fever dreams all night, spaced out, weak, bad guts, headache, torn up throat. All the symptoms that point towards an illness of some kind. Anyway I'm about to brave the outside world to buy some fucking supplies. Question is - what should I buy? What keeps you going when you're ill? Anything weird?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Vimto, Iron Bru, Root Beer, Bacon Chipsticks and Advil.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I had flu felt bloody awful, so I took Beechams Flu Plus. I felt a bit better, but now I have a cold again. I'm not sure that Beechams Flu Plus are all that great.
Maybe heroin?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Go with the Benylin flu tablets, the orange solid ones (not capsule), they're ace.
plus ice cream (to soothe the throat - that's my excuse anyway).
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'd get some chicken soup, berocca, beechams flu and oranges
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I found that lemsip works a lot faster than beechams but only provides relief for about 2 hours whilst beechams would provide relief for about 4 hours and as you can only take them every 4 hours it was worth the slower kickin to get round the clock relief.
Berocca and oranges as you need to get as much vitamin C into your body as possible. I don't think you can overdose on it.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Possibly worth picking up some Anusol if you're going out anyway...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I always use anusol, everyday. Better to be safe than sorry.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Irn Bru, Cream Soda, 7-Up. Berocca or the fizzy Vitamin C tabs. Ice cream or Ribena Calippos. Paracetamol and Nurofen. Laurel & Hardy or Warner Bros cartoons on DVD.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Our MD just put a bottle of Lanson Black Label Champagne (depuis 1760, apparently) on my desk. I'm not sure this is the same quality or value as Cristal, but I'll gladly FedEx it over if you think it might help.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: Berocca and oranges as you need to get as much vitamin C into your body as possible. I don't think you can overdose on it.
Sorry! I get vitamin C rage... Last time I had a cold I had loads of co-codamol and hot whisky, which made me really high. It was great.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: loads of co-codamol and hot whisky
Abby's right.
Or, nothing fiddly as you've got a cold, how about Passion Fruit Rubicon mixed with Woods 100 rum?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm going to double up on the anusol and stick that bottle of glenlivet archive in the microwave. When it's boiling I'll guzzle it down with a blended chaser of chicken soup, ice cream, and berocca.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Who are you going to trust with your information about Vitamin C. A Scientist or a Quality Analyst? I think you know what makes sense.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I will do whatever Abby tells me.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't think she's an expert in analysing quality Benway.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
What do you analyse the quality of?
...Oh and while I am here can anyone recommend good things to watch ...things with lots of episodes like West wing, Heroes, Lost...etc etc...I intend to hibernate for the rest of the winter with co-codamol, whisky and episodes...
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Mad Men. Completely absorbing.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
BSG
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
The WIRE.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I analyse the quality of telephone calls. It is an exciting field.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
How many phone calls do you reckon you've analysed the quality of, during your career?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I have no idea. I've probably been involved in the analysis of thousands. Personally perhaps a few hundred.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
What's the quality of these telephone calls been like overall? Pretty reasonable, I'd guess?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I imagine it varies a fair bit. That's why they need analysing. Someone has to keep on top of this stuff.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
When I joined, the ratings given for the calls were generally very good but I didn't feel it was a fair assessment of what our customers would rate them so I have revamped the way in which people score the calls so it is less of a tickbox exercise and more picking out on things that customers would rate as important and so although the numeric score dropped drastically for the calls, this is going back up and I think the customers are enjoying much better service.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
You're right of course.
But I still wonder if there have been any notable trends since Cherry in Hove started working in this field. Has the quality been improving steadily? Any blips? Was there a dark time, now only ever talked about in hushed tones, when call quality took a real nosedive?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Delivering customer satisfaction, with a commitment to ensuring deliverable quality going forward and creating an added-value user experience.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You sound like you know what you're talking about mart. You can have my job if you like.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Giving stakeholders a real say in the solutions provided by empowering user choice through the implementation of a quality-based experience metric to ensure a satisfaction-driven service delivery.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Our mission is to build great software solutions and provide fanatical support to our clients.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Misc's sounds suspiciously like it's not made up.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
We believe in the potential of a well-implemented eBusiness strategy, seamlessly combining a state-of-the-art front-end design and back-end infrastructure to build an integrated solution.
Do you?
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Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Our mission is to build great software solutions and provide fanatical support to our clients.
I think that would be punchier if it read, "Our mission is to build great software solutions and provide intrusively fanatical support to our clients."
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think Benway will be glad to have these corporate messages on his thread when he returns with his medicine. They will give him relief.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Lucozade
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
As someone who spent a lot of his teenage years on the phone to CiH, I did originally think that his job in analysing phonecalls for American Express was a good move for him. However I did find it a bit frustrating when I rang up to get a credit card and then, for the next hour, found myself railroaded into a discussion about the episode of Red Dwarf that had just aired, an argument about which was the best Carter USM album, and a remarkably detailed analysis of the 15 minutes Hayley Roberts spent on the trampoline during PE.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: ...and a remarkably detailed analysis of the 15 minutes Hayley Roberts spent on the trampoline during PE.
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